Description

Introducing HBO GO®. The streaming service from HBO that lets you enjoy your favorite HBO shows, movies, comedy specials, sports, documentaries—plus behind-the-scenes extras and more. It’s every episode of every season of the best of HBO, free with your HBO subscription—now available on Android smartphones and tablets!

It’s HBO. Anywhere.

Free with your HBO subscription through participating television providers.

With the new HBO GO App You Can:

• Keep up with your favorites. Watch everything you love about HBO, including HBO original programming, hit movies, sports, comedy and every episode of the best HBO shows, including True Blood®, Game of Thrones®, Boardwalk Empire®, Girls, Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm®, Entourage®, The Sopranos®, Sex and the City®, The Wire® and more. Plus, get bonus features and special behind-the-scenes extras!

• Take it with you: On the run or on the road, never miss a moment of your favorite HBO shows and hit movies with HBO GO on your laptop and select tablets and mobile devices.

• Make it your own: Make your HBO GO experience personal. Create a customized Watchlist and catch up on your favorite HBO shows and hit movies at your convenience. If you’re on the run, resume viewing titles from your Watchlist on your portable device including laptops and select tablets and mobile devices.

• With HBO GO, watch new episodes of your favorite shows and hit movies simultaneously as they premiere on HBO.

• Starting on Jan. 16, watch Sesame Street, Pinky Dinky Doo and The Electric Company in the new Kids section

HBO GO® is only accessible in the US and certain US territories where high-speed broadband is available. Minimum 3G connection is required for viewing on mobile devices. Some restrictions may apply for mobile devices.

Reviews

3.8

82,872 total

5 43,454

4 14,019

3 6,199

2 4,729

1 14,469

Josh Collins

HBO You definitely have the resources to make a better app. This app takes forever to load, freezes and closes every single time I use it. Casting a video and want to pause it? Well that's going to take you a full 30-60 seconds of app loading time. Netflix? I don't even have to unlock my S7 Edge. It's doable, so please update this app to work smoothly

Chris Swindler

ruined in update. This app used to be excellent. After a recent update it has become glitchy and slow. It takes a full 10 seconds to load, i cant turn the volume up & down with the buttons on my phone(has to be done in app), and it almost always closes on its own when i leave the app. the 2 later make using the chromecast a bit of a pain.

A Google User

lags like a mf First of all, the app is slow and lags from the moment you turn it on. Then when I play my content, the content just stops showing a message that there's to network connection. This has happened on 4G and WiFi. Then I have to restart the and it lags again. At this point I have spent 15 minutes, to only be able to watch maybe 3 minutes of what I wanted to. Some times it plays content in the background. Going back to the app lags it again. lol seriously where's your QA? You should hire me get this straight.

Charles Aquadro

Utter crap. Takes 10-15 seconds to open on a 2016 top end phone. If I want to cast to Chromecast, I need to start the video playing first and then cast, otherwise it will just sit there and do nothing. I'm not even counting the painful experience getting logged in to a Verizon account.

HBO GO for Android=Horrible I switched from iPhone to Android and so far so good. However, the HBO GO app is terrible. The screen constantly goes black or the app times out all together with error messages. Did I mention how slow the app is. Sometimes it doesn't connect at all. I'd say more, but I have yet to be able to watch a single program to its end.

Andrew Baucom

Meh Movie library sucks and is outdated. App has crappy layout, newest episodes of a show are last in the layout. Change your sort order at least! App has to reload itself after the screen goes to sleep... 30+ seconds and it very annoying. Needs work. Two stars for supporting chromecast.

User reviews

Josh Collins November 26, 2016

HBO You definitely have the resources to make a better app. This app takes forever to load, freezes and closes every single time I use it. Casting a video and want to pause it? Well that's going to take you a full 30-60 seconds of app loading time. Netflix? I don't even have to unlock my S7 Edge. It's doable, so please update this app to work smoothly

ruined in update. This app used to be excellent. After a recent update it has become glitchy and slow. It takes a full 10 seconds to load, i cant turn the volume up & down with the buttons on my phone(has to be done in app), and it almost always closes on its own when i leave the app. the 2 later make using the chromecast a bit of a pain.

lags like a mf First of all, the app is slow and lags from the moment you turn it on. Then when I play my content, the content just stops showing a message that there's to network connection. This has happened on 4G and WiFi. Then I have to restart the and it lags again. At this point I have spent 15 minutes, to only be able to watch maybe 3 minutes of what I wanted to. Some times it plays content in the background. Going back to the app lags it again. lol seriously where's your QA? You should hire me get this straight.

Utter crap. Takes 10-15 seconds to open on a 2016 top end phone. If I want to cast to Chromecast, I need to start the video playing first and then cast, otherwise it will just sit there and do nothing. I'm not even counting the painful experience getting logged in to a Verizon account.

HBO GO for Android=Horrible I switched from iPhone to Android and so far so good. However, the HBO GO app is terrible. The screen constantly goes black or the app times out all together with error messages. Did I mention how slow the app is. Sometimes it doesn't connect at all. I'd say more, but I have yet to be able to watch a single program to its end.

Meh Movie library sucks and is outdated. App has crappy layout, newest episodes of a show are last in the layout. Change your sort order at least! App has to reload itself after the screen goes to sleep... 30+ seconds and it very annoying. Needs work. Two stars for supporting chromecast.

I'm so annoyed HBO GO has been wonderful to use, particularly as I'm on the road a lot and don't have regular access to wifi. I pack my cable and hook my phone up to a tv and voila. Simple, great, for years! Now, it tells me that my cable is non compliant. So, no hooking it up. Seriously? Without offering a workable sollution? Did I mention no wifi?

Keeps getting worse Each new update is slower, buggier, and worse in design. The older episodes are on top - who the f#$! thought of that? It used to integrate wonderfully with my phones lock screen - another practical feature gone. HBO content is great, why not make the app great again - insert Trump pun here ;)

Continues to be the worst streaming app available Rarely works. Constantly giving a server error. Constantly force closing. Doesn't have the ability to play the next episode of a show automatically, which is insane. Terrible layout. It's incredibly difficult to find anything. I wish they would fix this. The amount of difficulty to get from one episode of a show to the next is astounding. It shouldn't be this difficult.

Where is the money going? Not in app development. Used to work great. Used to show what I'm casting on the lock screen. Now it sucks, and I have to go manually into the app to control it. Chromecast streaming is a horrible experience. Hate it. Loading times are way too long. Where is the money going? Netflix and Hulu have great apps. This is embarrassing.

Please contact the HBO GO customer support team here:
https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Brennan Grady November 8, 2016

Works, but very slowly When the app finally, and I mean FINALLY loads it works fine. But if I leave the app to do something else (since I'm using it for Chromecast) it has to reload before I can control the video. Very annoying. Please fix the issues!

App will not work Everytime I open app it just shows me the HBO GO logo and nothing else no matter how long I wait. Tried reinstalling too. I have an up-to-date galaxy s7, and I know its not my phone's issue.

If you ever leave the app while Chromecasting, it takes forever to reopen The app restarts anew if you ever leave it. Why can't it run in the background? If i text someone and then want to pause the show, I end up waiting 30 seconds for it to relaunch. Using it on a pixel where everything else is miraculously fast.

So many bugs and bad UI. I wish you could autoplay next episode, or at least find it easily. Also, disconnects from Chromecast all the time, every time the app goes off sceen. Netflix and youtube apps works so much better. So hard to watch. Honestly HBO test your app before releasing this crap. Great shows though. Really has a Ron of bugs with Chromecast. Fix it!!!!!!!!

HBO No Go It's a shame how often this service is down. Either it's down for everything, down for mobile devices only, or giving me sign in problems, this service seems to be working less than it actually works. Get your service in order and I'll change my rating. UPDATE: No longer has a persistent notification when streaming to Chromecast. It's embarrassing how inferior this app is to Netflix.

Please contact the HBO GO Customer Support Team here:
https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
We'll be glad to look into this further.

CN Thomas November 22, 2016

so disappointing and annoying this app is just terrible. I agree, concur, approve, and any other word you can think of with everyone's complaints in regards to this app. and the only reason I gave it a 2 rating is because I enjoy the content provided. other than that, it's a real bummer.

Used to work but no longer This app used to work just fine but now it just crashes. Takes forever to even load the front page and I haven't successfully loaded a show in a long time (months). I just keep getting error messages. The app is essentially unusable.

Chromecast doesn't work anymore On chromecast, won't start playback, just pauses right away, pressing play just flashes back to pause. Full reinstall, same problem. This has been abandoned for weeks now.

Good content lazy app Use to work on my Chromecast and now it won't play sound. How does every iteration of your app get worse and worse. Also this app has to be the slowest app out there takes 1 minute to boot.

Please contact the HBO GO customer support team here:
https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
We’ll be glad to investigate this further.

Marie Larson November 18, 2016

Would be more useful if it opened I love the logo, but a static HBO GO icon isn't the content I am interested in accessing. The app literally won't move past the opening logo screen. Useless waste of space. Uninstalling as soon as I click "submit."

Does what I need it, but some bugs For those that only got it to run once: uninstall, reinstall. When you sign in DO NOT check the 'remember my password' or whatever the wording is. IT WILL remember it. However, checking that box causes it to crash (on my tablet at least). Beyond that, there is some disconnection issues.

Super slow, and no drop down menu The last update really screwed up the app. You can no longer scrub through the time frame properly. You use to be able to tell how far you scrub down to each second. So now when you test me the show you kind of just guess a few times where you were. The app also no longer stays connected to the chrome cast once you go to the home screen. There use to be an icon on the top of the phone screen and basic control in the notification panel in the drop down menu. Please fix fast.

Frequent Crashes Great content, but this app crashes frequently on multiple platforms (Samsung phone, iPad, Smart TV, and Xbox). It works well on PC, but on everything else it runs very slowly, and boasts one of the slowest startup screens ever. It is like 1989 Apple IIGS with a startup disk slow. The interface has gone through several pointless revamps and they have all been terrible. The old version of the app, which also suffered from slow loading times and frequent crashes, was actually better.

Please contact the HBO GO customer support team here:
https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
We’ll be glad to look into this further.

Brian Fulton December 4, 2016

This app is slow and keeps signing me out of my account. I have an actual password that I have to look up to login. Don't waste your money in this. The user experience is abysmal because of this forced continuous re-login. Why is it so hard to save my account credentials?

Is it possible to give negative stars? Seriously, this is the worst video app I have ever used with Chromecast. The app takes forever to start and once it does it disappears from the "active apps". Which means anytime you want to pause it then you have to start the app all over again which takes FOREVER! If you have any desire to fast forward or rewind more than ten seconds at a time forget it, you can drag the the play slider but you can't see what's happening with the show as you move it. Hey HBO, have you ever looked at the Netflix or YouTube app? At least then you would know how a real video app should function.

Great Content. Bad App. The app and content load times are 3x slower than Netflix or showtime. Also troubling is I can watch an entire show on Netflix, yet from the EXACT SAME SPOT, HBO Go tells me there is not enough signal? So it crashes alot. This was observed on an LG G4, LG G5, and Samsung S7.

Worthless! This app used to be great. Now it hardly ever loads and when it does it freezes every 5 minutes. Screw this. Think I'm going to cancel HBO and just buy the couple of shows I like on Amazon. It's not worth the monthly charge any more!!!

Great content. Sluggish app. The best source for non-pirated HBO content thanks to its clear HD video. The app itself though is sluggish as hell. The only other app I know of that is more sluggish is the Disney Junior app, which is total turd.

The only thing worse than the clumsy UI, is the pathetic speed of the app. Congrats. You created the DMV of mobile apps.............. Now I have to contact customer support? Why? Do your job and make a better app. Go contact your developers.

Worst streaming app Again, worst streaming app ever! Sooooo frustrating. Won't load movies. Won't resume after a call. Have to completely close the app and open it again to get the movie started. Sometimes 3 or 4 times. Really HBO?

Slow, freezes Considering how well other streaming apps work and the popularity of hbo content, I am surprised of how poor this app has always performed. If it doesn't freeze on you, then it's a long wait for it to load.

Wow this app is bad Dear app devs, try the Netflix app then try the HBO app, then try the Netflix app again. Your app sucks! Try Chromecasting this is the worst app I have used! Would give it a 0 stars if I could. Netflix is your biggest competition maybe your app should be better than there's, not a piece of garbage. Love the content.

Impossible to navigate App has all the right content, but navigation is almost impossible. It interprets every touch as a horizontal scroll. So I'm trying to scroll down through movies, and the app keeps scrolling sideways instead. Horribly aggravating. Almost renders the app unusable. If they would change that simple thing, this would be a good app.

Buggy and hard to use Randomly throws me out and tells me cannot play video check your Internet connection.. nothing is wrong with my Internet or phone.. both work just fine with other apps.. loads take more than five minutes for just a screen.. by the time I find what I'm looking for I've lost interest in watching anything..

Even Slower and even more buggier Somehow they've managed to make the app even worse. They've added more pretty pictures and previews that take minutes to load or don't load at all. It's so frustrating! It's so easy to fix! Stop adding crap and lighten the app. At least now when it forgets what service provider you have, it still manages to remember your login info (wtf!?) The 10s jumps were a good addition. But the selection interface is so terrible.

Please contact the HBO GO customer support team here:
https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Donald Stennett November 10, 2016

Very low sound! Just started using a Pixel XL and getting very low sound. Cannot hear a thing. Thought it was just my headphones, and tried it with other applications. Worked perfectly. Went back to HBO go, issue persists.

The f***kin worst app EVER This app sucks farts. Constantly freezes. Rarely even loads a movie. In this day & age where streaming is used as much as cable, this is an absolute joke. No wonder why everyone bootlegs HBOs shows. This app is an embarrassment. Until it is fixed & is up to par with every other streaming app, i encourage everyone to not waste time downloading this app & find what you want to watch on dozens of free streaming sites. HBO should be ashamed of themselves.